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  • Constituting Federal Sovereignty

    The European Union in Comparative Context

    by Leslie Friedman Goldstein ...
    Series series The Johns Hopkins Series in Constitutional Thought
    Addresses why, when, and how sovereign states give up some of their sovereignity to form a larger unionStarting from the premise that the system of independent, sovereign, territorial states, which was the subject of political science and international relations studies in the twentieth century, has entered a transition toward something new, noted political scientist Leslie F. Goldstein examines ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

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  • Common Sense

    by Thomas Paine ...
    "Common Sense" is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. The Thirteen Colonies were a group of British colonies on the east coast of North America founded in the 17th and 18th centuries that declared independence in 1776 and formed the United States of America.Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809) was an English-American ... Read more

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  • The Nine

    Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court

    by Jeffrey Toobin ...
    Acclaimed journalist Jeffrey Toobin takes us into the chambers of the most important—and secret—legal body in our country, the Supreme Court, revealing the complex dynamic among the nine people who decide the law of the land. An institution at a moment of transition, the Court now stands at a crucial point, with major changes in store on such issues as abortion, civil rights, and church-state ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

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  • The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution of the United States

    Together in one book, the two most important documents in United States history: the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States, along with the Bill of Rights and successive constitutional amendments.With an introduction by Pauline Maier, a renowned scholar of the American Revolution.The Declaration of Independence was the promise of a representative government; the ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Foundations of Public Law

    by Martin Loughlin ...
    Foundations of Public Law offers an account of the formation of the discipline of public law with a view to identifying its essential character, explaining its particular modes of operation, and specifying its unique task. Building on the framework first outlined in The Idea of Public Law (OUP, 2003), the book conceives public law broadly as a type of law that comes into existence as a consequence ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • Bill of Wrongs

    The Executive Branch's Assault on America's Fundamental Rights

    by Molly Ivins, Lou Dubose ...
    Throughout her long career of “afflicting the comfortable and comforting the afflicted,” the cause closest to Molly Ivins’s heart was working to protect the freedoms we all value. Sadly, today we’re living in a time when dissent is equated with giving aid to terrorists, when any of us can be held in prison without even knowing the charges against us, and when our constitutional rights are being ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • The Framers' Coup

    The Making of the United States Constitution

    by Michael J. Klarman ...
    Americans revere their Constitution. However, most of us are unaware how tumultuous and improbable the drafting and ratification processes were. As Benjamin Franklin keenly observed, any assembly of men bring with them "all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views." One need not deny that the Framers had good intentions in order to ... Read more

    $24.79 CAD

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  • More Essential than Ever

    The Fourth Amendment in the Twenty First Century

    by Stephen J. Schulhofer ...
    Series series Inalienable Rights
    When the states ratified the Bill of Rights in the eighteenth century, the Fourth Amendment seemed straightforward. It requires that government respect the right of citizens to be "secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures." Of course, "papers and effects" are now digital and thus more vulnerable to government spying. But the biggest threat ... Read more

    $40.79 CAD

  • The Paradox of Traditional Chiefs in Democratic Africa

    by Kate Baldwin ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    The Paradox of Traditional Chiefs in Democratic Africa shows that unelected traditional leaders can facilitate democratic responsiveness. Ironically, chiefs' undemocratic character gives them a capacity to organize responses to rural problems that elected politicians and state institutions lack. Specifically, chiefs' longer time horizons encourage investment in local institutions that enable the ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Market and Competition Authorities

    Good Agency Principles

    by Annetje Ottow ...
    Market and competition authorities operate in a complex environment with conflicting stakeholder demands. Balancing the various interests of the authority and stakeholder in an objective and impartial manner is strategic to achieving the goals of the legislation imposed. In a fresh approach examining the actions of an authority when a regulation is applied, Annetje Ottow argues the vital ... Read more

    $109.59 CAD

  • The Religious Beliefs of America's Founders

    Reason, Revelation, and Revolution

    by Gregg L. Frazer ...
    Series series American Political Thought
    Were America’s Founders Christians or deists? Conservatives and secularists have taken each position respectively, mustering evidence to insist just how tall the wall separating church and state should be. Now Gregg Frazer puts their arguments to rest in the first comprehensive analysis of the Founders’ beliefs as they themselves expressed them—showing that today’s political right and left are ... Read more

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  • Creating the Constitution

    1787

    by Christopher Collier, James Lincoln Collier ...
    Series Book 1998 - The Drama of American History Series
    Using a narrative format, Creating the Constitution details the events leading up to the writing of the US Constitution and what American leaders went through to create it. The authors describe the conflicts between the new states and the delegates each sent to the Constitutional Convention, as well as the work that was done to resolve the many issues at hand. ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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